EPA 902/7-78-008
COMPUTERIZATION OF THE NEW YORK
INCINERATOR FILES
September 1978
FINAL REPORT
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region I I
Air Programs Branch
New York, New York 10007
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TECHNICAL REPORT DATA
(Please read Instructions on the reverse before completing)
\. REPORT NO.
EPA 902/7-78-008
3. RECIPIENT'S ACCESSION-NO.
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5. REPORT DATE
September, 1978
Computerization of the New York City Incinerator
File
6. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION CODE
7. AUTHOR(S)
Jack D. Homkow
Fred C. Hart
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NO.
048
9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS
Fred C. Hart Associates, Inc.
527 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT NO.
2AC 636
11. CONTRACT/GRANT NO.
68-02-2830
12. SPONSORING AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region II, Air Programs Branch
New York, New York 10007
13. TYPE OF REPORT AND PERIOD COVERED
Final
14. SPONSORING AGENCY CODE
15. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
16. ABSTRACT
Fred C. Hart Associates, Inc. assisted the New York State Depart-
ment of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) in transfering data on
operational incinerators in New York City to the Department's compu-
terized emission inventory and administrative control system.
The upgrading of the New York City incinerator files will benefit
three levels of government—City, State, and Federal. Both the City and
State will utilize the data for administrative control and emission
inventory purposes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will input
the information in the National Emissions Data System (NEDS). The
information can be used in the development of appropriate strategies for
achieving and maintaining national ambient air quality standards.
17.
KEY WORDS AND DOCUMENT ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTORS
b.lDENTIFIERS/OPEN ENDED TERMS C. COSATI Field/Group
Air Pollution
Emissions Inventory
Stationary Sources
On-Site Incineration
State of New York
City of New York
12b, 13b,
13h, 21b
13. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT
Release Unlimited
19. SECURITY CLASS (This Report)
Unclassified
21. NO. OF PAGES
18
20. SECURITY CLASS (This page)
Unclassified
22. PRICE
EPA Form 2220-1 (9-73)
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Disclaimer.
The report has been reviewed by the Air Facilities Branch, Region II of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and approved for publication.
Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the
views and policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nor does
mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or
recommendation for use.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. .
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Description of the New York City Incinerator Program
The Incinerator Control Program. . .
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Details of Work Performed
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Work Tasks
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Productivity Summary
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Utilization of Project Data
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Conclusions and Recommendations
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Introduction
The purpose of this contract was to transfer data on incinerators
from the Ci ty of New York fil es to the NevI York State Department of
Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) computerized emission inventory and
administrative control system.
The data ultimately will be utilized in
the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Emissions
Data System (NEDS) program.
Description of the New York City Incinerator ProQram.
The Depart-
ment of Air Resources is the agency within the City of New York respon-
sible for air pollution control and noise abatement.
The Department is
the responsible agent designated by the State of New York to carry out
c~rtain functions of the New York State Air Quality Implementation Plan
as required by the Federal Clean Air Act.
New York City has more incinerators than any other jurisdiction in
the country.
There are six municipal incinerators and over 5,000 on-
site or apartment house incinerators.
Prior to 1930, on-site incinerators
were rarely installed in City apartment houses.
Shortly before World
War II when solid waste collection and disposal became a sizeable burden
to the City's finances, labor, and disposal capability, the City required
that on-site incinerators be constructed in new apartment buildings.
The post-War period was one of sizeable apartment construction leading
to a peak number of 17,000 incinerators in the City's apartment buildings.
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New York City has been concerned with its air quality since the
1950's but in 1965 a substantial effort to evaluate and resolve the
problem began.
In 1965, the Department of Air Pollution Control had 65
people.
Eight years later the staff was 377--a six-fold increase.
In 1965, an emissions inventory was prepared which estimated the
contributions of on-site incinerators to be nearly 25 percent of the
total emissions of suspended particulate and nearly 50 percent of the
maximum ground level concentrations.
With this background, the New York City Council with the support of
the Mayor and many civic groups, passed Local Law 14 of 1966 which set.
controls on incinerators and oil burners then in existence, limited
future construction of incinerators, and also limited the sulphur con-
tent of fuel oil.
Administrative and legal steps were taken by the real estate industry
which delayed enforcement of this law over a period of years. The law
was amended in 1968 to recognize the reality of this delay, and finally
was included in the comprehensive Air Pollution Control Code passed in
1971.
The real estate industry legal suit "Oriental Boulevard vs.
Heller" \'Ias rejected in the State courts in late 1970 and was refus.ed a
hearing by the Supreme Court in March, 1971.
The result of these delays
was that by the end of 1970, only eight percent of the 17,000 incinerators
existing in New York City had been closed or received "certificates of
operation. II
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A full scale enforcement effort (which was prevented by injunction
during the hearing of the lawsuit) began in late 1970 and over the next
three years, 200 to 500 incinerators were modified or shut down each
month so that by the end of 1973, only 6,000 incinerators had not been
permitted or closed down.
This effort of enforcement and engineering
review has continued over the past four years but has declined as budget
cuts have reduced engineering and enforcement staff, and as the general
economy in New York City has reduced the ability of private owners and
public assistance housing to finance the needed modifications.
The Incinerator Control Program.
When the owner of an incinerator
was interested in receiving a IIcertificate of operationll for an. incinerator,
he filed an application and a set of plans through an agent (profe~sional
engineer).
The set of plans, submitted on forms prepared by the City of
New York, contained sufficient information to demonstrate that the
required criteria for incinerator modification was fulfilled.*
The application was sent to the Department's Bureau of Engineering,
and after being logged in and given a control number, was passed on to
an engineer within the Bureau for review.
If the engineer found defi-
ciencies in the applications, a "notice of disapproval" listing the
areas in need of correction was set to the filer.
The filer in most
cases corrected the deficiencies and submitted an "amendment" to the
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If the apartment house was small, the owner could shut down the
incinerator or, no matter the size, the owner could also shut down
the incinerator if a waste compactor was installed to handle solid
waste.
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application for review.
In some cases, the filer could appeal the
disapproval to the Director of Engineering or to a specially constituted
Review Board headed by the Deputy Commissioner.
In the case of the
Review Board, a record of the decision was placed in the files and an
amendment to the application was then made by the filer.
After all disapprovals were remedied, the Department issued a work
permit, and work towards modification of the incinerator could begin.
After the work was completed, the filer asked for inspection of the
work.
A member of the Bureau of Engineering field unit then went to the
site and inspected the completed installation.
If any deficiencies were
found, a IInotice of disapproval II was issued listing the deficiencies.
The deficiencies were generally corrected or occasionally appealed to
the Review Board.
After resolution, the filer submitted a letter to the
Department indicating the correction of the deficiencies and requesting
a reinspection.
After a field inspection was conducted which showed
that the defi ci enci es \'Jere corrected, a IIcertifi cate of operati on" \'/as
issued permitting operation of the incinerator for a period of three
yea rs.
The application and modification p~ocedures enumerated in. the
precedi ng paragraphs are sti 11 util i zed by the Department to process new
applications and amendment submittals.
The information contained on the
application form, incinerator schematic, certificate of operation,
notice of disapproval, work permit, and amendments form the bulk of the
data base requiring transcription onto the APC 5-R form.
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Details of Work Performed
As a result of the rapid pace of incinerator modifications, and the
later budget cuts, the Department was never able to invest the time
required to make its forms consistent with the needs of the State and
Federal governments.
Since the modification program was satisfying its
goal of reducing air pollutant levels (average citywide suspended parti-
culates dropped from 105 micrograms per cubic meter in 1970 to under the
primary standard of 75 micrograms per cubic meter in 1973), government
officials apparently preferred not to impede the progress at the expense
of satisfying the need for consistent forms.
Now that the program of modification is under control, a new require-
ment exists--to accurately define emission sources so that air quality
maintenance plans can be developed, implemented, and enforced.
There-
fore, there is the demonstrated need for upgrading the New York City
incinerator files in order to make this data compatible for analysis and
evaluation with data collected for the rest of .New York State.
Work Tasks.
The primary tasks involved in the successful com-
pletion of this work effort included:
(1) a review of 3,776 New York
City Department of Air Resources (NYCDAR), Bureau of Engineering inci-
nerator files (containing information on approximately 5,000 incinerators)
and the transcription of the requisite data onto a newly designed form--
APC 5-R (Rev. 7/75); (2) key punching selected data fields from the APC
5-R forms and key verifying the results onto computer input cards; and
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(3) making final corrections on any data cards that were identified by
NYSDEC as containing incorrect information in the data field.
The APC
5-R (Rev. 7/75) is depicted in Figure 1.
Productivity Summary.
The number of New York City incinerator
files actually transcribed totaled 3,766 (see Figure 2).
However, it
should be noted that approximately 20 percent of the files contained
applications for a IIcertificate of operationll for more than one inci-
nerator on a particular premise.
Thus, the number of incinerators
evaluated and reviewed approached the original estimate of 5,000 inci-
nerators.
The multiple-incinerator files can be identified by the next-
to-last digit in the identifier code which indicates the number of
emission points--i.e., the number of incinerators on a premise.
For
example, in the identifier file code which follows, three incinerators
would be located in that particular facility:
2R10073089100003A.
The cumulative man-hours expended from the project's inception
through March 10, 1978 (when transcription activities were completed)
totaled 2,612.0 man-hours.
This effort included 370 hours expended by
the Project Manager in supervisory activities and in conducting the
project-management administrative and report-preparation functions.
Additionally, another 407.25 man-hours vlere expended at the project's
inception, which was spent as project IIstart-upli time (100.5 man-hours)
and on initial file transcription activities (306.75 man-hours).
These
initial files had to be redone due to minor scope-of-work contract
modifications.
This circumstance is reflected by the zero productivity
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level for September, 1977, although 306.75 man-hours of work were ex-
pended.
These forms required minor modifications which were accom-
p1ished over the following two months.
Deducting the Project Manager's administrative and supervisory
commitments during the project (370 man-hours) and the start~up time
(100.5 man-hours) for the project's other team members (e.g., training
sessions), approximately 2,141.5 man-hours were actually spent in the
process of transcribing 3,766 files.
On the average, 1.76 files per
man-hour were transcribed (or about 34 minutes per file on the average).
Utilization of Project Data
The upgrading of the New York City incinerator files will benefit
three levels of government--City, State, and Federal.
Three distinct groups within the City can be expected to make use
of the data.
The Bureau of Engineering, which controls the files now,
will have consistent files so that the program leading to the issuance
of "certificates of operation" can be better monitored. The Bureau of
Enforcement will be able to identify candidates for inspection as those
lacking original certificates to operate, or lacking renewed certifi-
cates that are required triennially.
Finally, the Bureau of Technical
Services will use the information to assist in develooing its emission,
inventory and additionally to modify its State Implementation Plan and
Maintenance Plan, should that course of action be necessary.
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will
utilize the information for two purposes:
1.
Administrative Control: identifying (a) the
. installations which have or do not have "cer-
tificates of operation" and (b) the certified
installations which must have their certifi-
cates renewed; and,
2.
Emission Inventory: . for a compilation of
State-wide emissions data.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will input the information
into the NEDS (National Emissions Data System) program.
The flow of
information from the appropriate New York State files into the NEDS
system is indicated in Figure 3.
The NEDS information allows a national
compilation of emissions data.
The information can be used in the
d~~elopment of appropriate strategies for achieving and maintaining
national ambient air quality standards.
Conclusions and Recommendations
In summary, the undertaking to computerize the NYCDAR incinerator
files will greatly enhance State and Federal attempts to standardize
emission inventory and reporting requirements.
A concomitant benefit is
the expanded administrative control features of the program.
B.y havi ng
the expiration dates for each "certificate of operation" in a computer
data bank, the task of identifying and notifying those facilities which
have certificates with imminent expiration dates can be standardized.
The contractor recommends that NYSDEC furnish the NYCDAR enforcement
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division with a monthly printout report.
At present, the owner (or his
agent) is required to notify the Department's Triennial Office that a
triennial inspection is necessary.
The inherent weakness of such a
notification system is obvious.
During the course of transcribing file
data, numerous facilities were discovered to be bperating incinerators
although the "certificates of operation" had expired one, two, and even
three years ago.
The implementation of an administrative reporting
system will eliminate the problem of identifying facilities requiring
triennial review.
In order to maintain the City's computerized incinerator file data
base on a current basis, it will be necessary to devise a method to
input additional data on a routine basis.
The updating of the data base
wi 11 serve three functions. First, it wi 11 a 11 ow for the incorporation
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of data on a facil i ty issued a "certificate of operation" for the first
time. Second, it \'Ii 11 serve as a mechanism for updating file infor-
mation on those facilities granted a triennial "certificate of operationll.
Third, it provides a method of inputing data contained in lIamendments",
such as equipment changes.
As the NYCDAR has neither the facilities nor
personnel to produce the requisite final product--i.e., a key punched
computer card--the following procedure is recommended:
At the time a
certificate of operation or an amendment is issued or approved, a
duplicate APC 5-R form should be completed by the NYCDAR engineer re-
cording the information in the Department's files.
In the case of
inputing amendment data, it would require recording only the identifier
code and the information on the a~endment, rather than completing the
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entire form.
These modifications would then be submitted on a. biweekly
or monthly basis to the appropriate NYSDEC office currently maintaining
the incinerator file data base.
The NYSDEC office would be required to
key punch the requisite data onto computer cards and subsequently incor-
porate the new information into the existing data base while deleting
the outdated information.
The recommended update procedure is the most economically viable
method of completing the update requirement utilizing the existing
structure of the data base system.
Performed on a routine basis, the
updating of the incinerator file data base would not substantially
increase present City and State personnel workloads, and would offer the
impacted agencies the noted advantages of an up-to-date computerized
emission inventory and administrative control system.
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